I Have Super Damage Too!

I got in another Monsterpocalypse game against Contwrath. I ran Terra Khan again, he played Xixorax but proxied by GW's Commander Shadowsun; he had just painted Shadowsun and wanted to put him on the table even if it was in the wrong game.

The Game:
Contwrath won the roll and chose to go first.

I put out as many units as I could, focusing on pushing my Raptix up the table.

Xixorax moved up to punch a Raptix.

Khan rampaged through a building. For funsies.

The Swarm took control of several buildings and power nodes.

I respawned the Raptix...

... then used Hop to grab the spawn node while still in the spawning phase...

... so that I could bring on two more dinos!

All three then moved up to punch an insect, allowing the Raptix to be Towed onto the power node!

Another Raptix moved up to Xixorax as if to taunt him.

Xixorax Rampaged along the river, knocking over a building and flattening three of my units, as well as putting a point of damage on Khan.

Khan responded by Hopping a Raptix next to Xixorax for Super Damage then slamming him into a double for a total of 6 damage, instantly knocking him into Hyper!

Realizing the threat they posed, the Swarm moved up and tried to kill some Raptix.

I spawned them back and started pushing models up to the Swarm.

Xixorax used a full ten power dice to throw Khan as far away as possible then stepped away as far as he could get.

With all the insects and hazard it was akward for Khan to get to Xixorax, so instead he moved up and used a Blast attack on the Cliff Hopper.

A big combined melee attack put a point of damage onto Khan and respawned the Cliff Hopper.

I spawned more dinos and killed a couple of insects.

Xixorax made a tactical retreat.

Khan followed, landing a Brawl then a Throw on Xixorax.

Xixorax was now on a single point of health.

Xixorax took a second monster turn to throw Khan into a building.

This took Khan down to his final point of health too.

Xixorax still had four Action Dice and four Power Dice; all I could do in my unit turn was kill any insects who could generate any more power.

Thanks to Penetrator on Xixorax's Brawl, Contwrath needed to roll seven strikes in his third consecutive monster activation. Two power dice fell off the table and the remaining dice showed five strikes. We picked up the dropped dice and he rolled them again, getting two more strikes, for a perfect finish!

Xixorax just managed to close out the closest game of Monpoc I've ever had!

I haven't had a chance to use Khan's Super Damage before, because I never had a monster activation where the enemy monster was standing next to one of my units. I hadn't realised before that Raptix have Hop because they don't have it on my version of the cards, but I was checking on some model rules online and saw it on their profile, and suddenly I saw the previously missing link in the equation. Contwrath kept killing the Raptix, but they kept respawning. He was able to avoid more super-damage using the river and his units to make it hard for me to advance my units to his Xixorax. I really thought I had this game when Terra Khan flipped a fresh Xixorax to his Hyper side in one attack, but I wasn't able to get another turn with Super Damage while Xixorax got two Super Damage throws, and also got some chip damage in. Plus of course running three consecutive monster activations to focus down Khan.

It was fun game that was as close as it gets at the end. I think we're getting better at positioning and power generation. I need to work on my defensive monster positioning, and I might need to be more agressive with my units too. I basically forgot about my ranged units this time; I brought in Raptix to support Khan, and Carnidons because for some reason I thought they had higher DEF than Bellowers (they don't). I think I'll stick with Khan for a while as I think he has more potential for me to unlock.